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Students
Diverse Conversations: Should Diversity of a College be Ranked?
Using diversity as a college ranking benchmark would force colleges to step up their game, recruiting more diverse student and faculty populations.
October 13, 2016
Gary S. May
Students
Female Student: I Endured 8-hour Interrogation after Rape at Old Dominion University
RICHMOND, Va. ― An Old Dominion University student who reported she was raped in her dorm room is charging that campus police prevented her from getting a medical exam to preserve evidence until after she was interrogated for almost eight hours. Her complaint to federal education officials about the October 2014 episode also says she […]
October 13, 2016
Students
Lawsuit says Brown University Protected Trustee’s Son in Drugging Case
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ― A female former Brown University student is suing the Ivy League school over how it handled her allegations that she was drugged at a fraternity party and later sexually assaulted. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Providence, raises the question of whether Brown dropped a disciplinary proceeding against the […]
October 13, 2016
Students
LeBron James’ Foundation Opens Institute to Aid College Students
AKRON, Ohio ― LeBron James isn’t just helping kids afford college. He wants them to stay there and leave with diplomas. The Cleveland Cavaliers superstar, whose foundation announced a partnership with the University of Akron last year to pay for four years of tuition for inner-city public high school graduates who meet certain criteria, has […]
October 13, 2016
Students
Lecturer Apologizes for Comparing Black Lives Matter to KKK
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― A lecturer at the University of Virginia has apologized after comparing the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan on social media. The Daily Progress reports that adjunct lecturer Douglas Muir apologized after responding to a Facebook post about Black Lives Matter, calling the movement the biggest racist organization since […]
October 13, 2016
Women
Crude Trump Train Keeps on Rolling
Just when you thought that this political season could not get anymore bizarre, it sure did.
October 12, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Howard University Renames School of Communications after Cathy Hughes
Howard University has decided to rename its School of Communications after media mogul Cathy Hughes, founder of Radio One, Inc.—the largest Black-owned multimedia company in the world.
October 12, 2016
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African-American
Haslam Names Boards for Tennessee State, University of Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. ― Gov. Bill Haslam named former University of Memphis interim president Brad Martin and Democratic fundraiser Bill Freeman to newly independent university boards on Wednesday. The new boards at the University of Memphis and Tennessee State University in Nashville are part of the Republican governor’s initiative to spin six four-year public universities out […]
October 12, 2016
Students
BYU-Hawaii Student Files Lawsuit over Honor Code, Assault
SALT LAKE CITY ― A former Brigham Young University-Hawaii student has filed a lawsuit alleging the school’s honor code prevented her from seeking help after she was sexually assaulted. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the lawsuit, filed Sept. 30 in Honolulu, claims the Mormon-owned school’s rules banning unmarried students from sexual activity made the […]
October 12, 2016
Students
Trump’s Lewd Remarks Concern Campuses Fighting Sex Assault
NEW LONDON, Conn. ― At Connecticut College, as at a growing number of campuses nationwide, students are encouraged to speak up if they hear remarks celebrating or condoning sexual aggression against women. In one training scenario, male students ask a peer if he really means it when he boasts of such conduct. So when news […]
October 12, 2016
Students
At HBCU, Obama Encourages Students to be Agents of Change
At a town hall meeting at North Carolina A&T State University, President Obama discussed national issues facing Black communities as well as historically Black colleges and universities.
October 12, 2016
Women
UVa Administrator Barred from Showing Video as Evidence Against Rolling Stone
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― A federal judge has delivered a setback to a University of Virginia official suing Rolling Stone and one of its writers for $7.8 million, alleging she was defamed in their discredited article about campus rapes. The judge says Nicole Eramo’s lawyers can’t show jurors any video from a deposition by the writer, […]
October 11, 2016
Students
Haskell Indian Nations University Employee Sues Over School’s Treatment of Rape Victim
LAWRENCE, Kan. ― A Haskell Indian Nations University employee alleges in a lawsuit that she was demoted from her job as a student counselor after trying to help a student who said she was raped. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Angelina Adams sued Monday in Douglas County District Court. Adams says Haskell leaders improperly expelled […]
October 11, 2016
Students
Howard University Starting Ph.D. Program Focusing on Minority Serving Institutions
Howard University is launching a new Ph.D. program in Higher Education with a focus on Minority Serving Institutions—the first doctoral program of this kind in the nation.
October 10, 2016
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Faculty & Staff
All Height Matters: Implicit Bias and Unearned Privileges
A student asked me, “What does implicit bias look like? Give me some examples.”
October 10, 2016
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Students
Rodriguez: Nightmare Looms for an Original DREAMER
This is the story of Lizbeth Mateo, a young, bright Indigenous woman from Oaxaca, Mexico, and a recent graduate from the Santa Clara University School of Law, who today finds herself under threat of imminent deportation.
October 10, 2016
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Students
UVa Lecturer Takes Leave of Absence Following Anti-Black Lives Matter Post
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― A lecturer at the University of Virginia “has agreed to take leave” after comparing the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan on social media. Media outlets report the comment was posted last week by Douglas Muir, an adjunct lecturer at both the engineering and business schools. On Tuesday, Charlottesville […]
October 10, 2016
Students
Protests Hamper South African University’s Effort to Reopen
JOHANNESBURG ― Tear gas and water cannon were fired as hundreds of students protested at a top South African university Monday amid a bitter national dispute with university managers and the government over demonstrators’ demands for free education. The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, or Wits, had said it was re-opening Monday after being […]
October 10, 2016
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